Our Constitutional Scholar of a President researched our founding document and found that he has the right to take from private citizens what ever pleases him to do so. He doesn’t like the name Washington Redskins, so damn it, he’ll just remove what ever private property from team owner Dan Snyder he chooses in order to coerce gently convince the Obama supporter to get back onto the politically correct band wagon.
…these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered…
The move affects six registrations and was brought about by a petition from five Native Americans. The office found that “a substantial composite of Native Americans found the term REDSKINS to be disparaging in connection with respondent’s services during the relevant time frame of 1967-1990.
We used to be a nation of laws, today not so much. Now we’re a nation of an emperor’s vision. It doesn’t stop there however. We’ve also become a nation subjected to a new class of overlords who’ve discovered a financial value to being aggrieved on behalf of somebody else. Read that statement from the patent office above carefully. You’ll see that the petition was placed with the U.S. Patent Office by a group of five individuals, out of a nation of 325 Million, and of those five, it is possible that none of them actually are Native Americans. (Let’s not forget the Ward Churchills and Elizabeth Warrens of the world.)
Never mind the small fact that a recent Associated Press Poll found that an eye popping 80% of Native Americans actually feel the name Washington Redskins represents an honorable tribute to their heritage and actually like the name. Never mind the fact that a similarly eye popping 80% of Americans in general in the same poll are also in favor of the Washington Redskins keeping their name. The fact that somebody in America was willing and able to fill out the appropriate somebody-else-should-feel-aggrieved form means that the Redskins organization would no longer enjoy their natural First, Fourth, or Fifth Amendment Rights. Because their speech has been deemed offensive, they have lost their right to be secure in their effects, and without due process, their property has been seized. Welcome to the fundamentally transformed America.
Here’s a letter penned by Snyder’s Attorney, which pretty much sums things up as far as addressing the aggrieved-on-your-behalf theater America is fast becoming.
“As a supporter of President Obama, I am sure the president is not aware that in the highly respected Annenberg Institute poll (taken 2004) with a national sample of Native Americans, 9 out of 10 Native Americans said they were not bothered by the name the ‘Washington Redskins.’
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“The president made these comments to the Associated Press, but he was apparently unaware that an April 2013 AP poll showed that eight out of ten of all Americans in a national sample don’t think the Washington Redskins name should be changed.
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“We at the Redskins respect everyone. But like devoted fans of the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Blackhawks (from President Obama’s hometown ), we love our team and its name and, like those fans, we do not intend to disparage or disrespect a racial or ethnic group.
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“The name ‘Washington Redskins’ is 80 years old – it’s our history and legacy and tradition. We Redskins fans sing ‘hail to the Redskins’ every Sunday as a word of honor not disparagement.”
Even if that were not true however, and let’s pretend just for the moment that Dan Snyder really did mean to disparage Native Americans. Let’s further pretend that every Native American living today was deeply offended by the Redskins name and logo. How would that change anything? Snyder’s property is and should always be Snyder’s property. The same goes for his right to accumulate and hold private property, say what ever is on his mind at any time any thought appears there, and he should only be deprived of such after due process within our judicial system dictated that his violation of our laws demanded fair recompense. Since when are these things removed from private citizens simply to assuage the anger of a President turned tin pot dictator?
Part of me says that Dan Snyder deserves his fate as a consequence for his endorsement, support, and campaign activities, all helping to get Barack Obama elected president, not only once but twice. But this nonsense is only the beginning, and what they can and are doing to Dan Snyder can just as easily be done to anyone else. Elections have consequences, and this sickening fundamental transformation of our nation from a representative republic into the tyrannical worker’s paradise not seen on Earth since before the fall of the Berlin Wall is ours.
Over the weekend I was asked during a debate on the Second Amendment with the brain dead friend of a friend whether I truly believed that vigilance against government tyranny were something that was applicable to today’s perfect version of the United States. This action by the U.S. Patent Office pretty much spells it out. Not only has our government grown tyrannical, it doesn’t even have the common decency to lie to us about it anymore.
That letter sent to King George in 1776 is every bit as applicable today as it was then.
